There was a crackdown Wednesday and dozens of illegal immigrants were arrested.
Many of those same immigrants were released just hours later
It was the last thing they, and their families, expected.
"They are not criminals. All they're here for is to work for their family," said Mariz Gomez.
And that's what they were doing making wooden pallets at two different locations when federal agents swooped in and took nearly 70 suspected undocumented workers to this federal detention center in north Houston.
"Just for them to come in here and to just throw them back to where they go. That's not right for them," said Gomez.
Families 11 News spoke with feared the men mostly from Central American countries would be deported.
But that was hardly the case.
Just five hours later Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents began releasing the undocumented workers.
What about people from El Salvador?
Huh, really??!!
And what about the teeming millions of Illegals already in the USA then?
Should've happened on 9/12/01 (actually, long before then).
Is DHS Secretary Chertoff being honest when he says that the catch and release policy for illegal aliens has been ended?
Doubt it, but we shall see.
Only five years too late to remedy a ridiculous embarrassment of federal ineptitude, but what the heck!
"First, I'd like to say, we did end "catch and release." Last November, what I said is we would end it by the end of September of this year. In fact, we beat the deadline. And we have now ended "catch and release." So that is a milestone that we set out and that we've achieved".
Now I'm asking myself, where'd he buy the clue? He hasn't had one up until now.
Ending 'catch and release?' - I'm not holding my breath.
He did not say that these numbers only applied at the southern border.
If the illegal makes it 100 miles into the country, which most do, they are not sending them back. If they catch them, they get a court date for deportation proceedings.
Guess how many show up.
Yeah, they ended 'catch and release', a corrupt policy that they should be too embarrassed to have even admitted to. So now we a new policy. It's called "catch and deport and open the borders and do it again". Who are do these geniuses think they are kidding?
The ending of "Catch and Release" means that they will no long Catch so there is no need for Release.
Someone must have forgotten to tell the field officers.... ICE agents are still rejecting pick-up of illegals caught for all but the biggest classes of felonies.
And over 1000 NON-MEXICAN illegals caught trying to sneak over in one week???
I hope they are from other countries in Central and South America, but they could be literally from anywhere on the globe. Let's not worry about the idea they could be terrorists, though, because we gotta have someone to do those "jobs Americans won't do", dontcha know?
Sheesh.
Yes indeed- we really need to end catch and release everywhere, not just at the border. We also need to secure the border- otherwise those deported simply return so even deportation is also catch & release until the border is secured.
Does this mean that they are still using catch and release on Mexican illegals? Granted, I didn 't read every word of the article, but this jumped out. If that's the case, then it seems a somewhat pointless exercise.
That's good. However, the USA also needs a hunt, catch and expel policy for the proponents of the ideology of death and destruction.
I can assure you that Chertoff, when referring to his success, is, though he says just the opposite, referring ONLY to NON-MEXICANS CAUGHT ON THE BORDER. And, my guess is that he is not loosing any sleep over whether or not he has fooled us into believing that he has ended the catch and release program for ALL illegal immigrants, whether mexican and non, whether ON the border or IN the country. After all, why should he be forthcoming and honest when Bush himself has declared that his plan to give illegal aliens amnesty, really isn't? IMO, Chertoff is doing EXACTLY as Bush expects him to do. Are they liars? Worse.
Chertoff: End 'Catch and Release' at Borders
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff promised Tuesday to end the "catch and release" policy that has allowed tens of thousands of non-Mexican illegal aliens to disappear within the United States.
"RETURN EVERY SINGLE ILLEGAL ENTRANT - NO EXCEPTIONS," Chertoff said in prepared testimony to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on proposals to overhaul the immigration system...................Chertoff said that the nearly 900,000 Mexicans who are caught entering United States every year are returned immediately to Mexico, "but other parts of the system have nearly collapsed under the weight of numbers." (I thought the 'other parts' causing the system to collapse, were the mexicans who did not get caught.....lol, think again...)
In the budget year that ended last month, the Border Patrol apprehended more than 160,000 non-Mexican nationals (oh, that part), but only 30,000 were removed from the United States. The others were released, often on their own recognizance, because there is no place to hold them. Few return for immigration hearings, he said."
Old article, but when they talk about ending catch and release, clearly they are referring to the NON-MEXICANS caught ON THE BORDER by Border Patrol.
It seems that Bush has long been part of a bipartisan group with an OBL agenda that includes open borders, cheap labor, and amnesty for illegals and I do not believe that ANYTHING, including our need for national security, will get in their way. Deception is the order of the day.